Miguel Ángel Perera

Miguel Ángel Perera

Date of birth: November 27, 1983 in Puebla del Prior (Badajoz)

Debut with picadors: February 23, 2002 in San Sebastian

“Alternativa”: June 23, 2004 in Badajoz, Spain

“Confirmación”: May 26, 2005

A pasodoble has been dedicated to him.

During his first years as a bullfighter, he left the bullring by the Great Door (Puerta Grande) in places such as Lima, Peru, where he won the Golden Scapular

(Escapulario de Oro) at the Festival of His Lord of Miracles (Feria del Señor de los Milagros), in Murcia, where he pardoned a bull on September 15, 2005, and in Valencia, where he also pardoned a bull, Badajoz, Gijón, Albacete and Nimes.

During the “Maestranza de Sevilla”, he cut two ears on October 12, 2006, and earned the same trophies on April 5, 2008. At this bullfight he won the Seville Equestrian Show Prize (Premio de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla) for the most outstanding bullfight of the April Fair (Feria de Abril). He cut two ears in Madrid at Las Ventas on June 6, 2008, which resulted in his leaving the bullring by the Great Door for the first time. On October 3, 2008 in the same bullring, he confronted six bulls from various herds; he was horned in his testicles and in his groin but continued his performance until the fifth bull. Being touched by his honesty and heroism, the Madrid public awarded him three ears.

September 2014, winner of the Dámaso González trophy to the winner of the Albacete fair awarded City Council.

* Translation by Robert Frederick Tatlow